The Morning Brew

I’ve had a surge in traffic and (twitter followers) over the weekend due to Scott Hanselman including ‘The Morning Brew’ in his Bytes by MSDN video interview – thanks for the plug Scott!

Software

• Caliburn v1 Release Candidate – Rob Eisenberg announces the Release Candidate of Caliburn, an application framework for WPF and Silverlight which provides implementations of a number of common UI patterns
• CHESS release v0.1.30610.2: Data Race Detection, ChessBoard, Refinement Checking – The CHESS team announce the latest release of CHESS a tool for finding concurrency bugs managed code. This release includes a number of new features as well as the usual bugfixes from the previous version
• Mono Tools for Visual Studio Preview Released – The Mono team announce a closed preview release of Mono Tools for Visual Studio, bringing integration Mono into Visual studio allowing you to run your code through mono, both locally and remotely and also debug

Information

• Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework – Microsoft Windows SDK Blog highlights some of the features of the Windows API Code pack for .NET, including screenshots which show each of the features that the SDK exposes.
• WPF Bindings and CurrentCulture Formatting – Rick Strahl discovers an interesting issue with localization in WPF applications, along with the fix.
• Reducing Code Coupling – Service Locator – Grant Palin takes a look at Service Locator implementation, showing how it can help you to decouple your code in this real world example
• Auto Quote Table/Column names – Fabio Maulo talks about a recent improvement to NHibernate which deals with automatially quoting table names to avoid problems with reserved words
• How PLINQ processes an IEnumerable<T> on multiple cores – ‘igoro’ looks at the ways that you could divide up work when processing an enumerable list using PLINQ, arriving on the final solution that is used in the framework
• I love 100% coverage! – Patrick Smacchia shows the types of bugs you will catch in your code when you get towards 100% coverage – showing that it is important to cover your code well.
• Opinionated Input Builders Part 6 – Performance of the builders – Eric Hexter continues with his Opinionated Input Builders series with a look at the performance of the builders. Be sure to read back through the posts in this series, and also check out Chad Meyers posts and Eric’s reply all linked from this article
• ASP.NET AJAX testing made easy using Visual Studio 2008 Web Test – Omar Al Zabir takes a look at using the Visual Studio 2008 Web Test functionality to test ASP.NET Ajax functionality in his applications
• ref on Reference Type?! – Chris Eargle looks at why you might want to pass reference types into your methods using the ref keyword
• X is for… XML Literal – Jim O’Neil takes a look at one of the most interesting and different features of Visual Basic .NET, the XML Literal syntax
• JavaScript: Not your father’s inheritance model – Part 1 – Sergio Pereira continues his JavaScript Demystified series with a look at inheritance JavaScript style. Continued in Part 2

Community

• Scot ALT.NET: An Evening of O/RM – Colin Angus Mackay highlights the forthcoming Scotish Alt.Net event on 7th July, where Chris Canal will be talking on FluentNHibernate, and Colin Gemmell will be comparing NHibernate to the Entity Framework
• When agile goes bad: how to stay calm and move forward with Sebastien Lambla – Seb Lambal discusses his first hand experiences of agile methods in this VBUG event to be held in Nuneaton on 14th July

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